Yeats used it to keep track of their shared ... and from his son, Michael, an Irish senator who died in 2007. The papers now occupy 38 yards of shelves; his personal library of 3,000 volumes ...

Shortly after this incident, Yeats was appointed a senator of the newly created Irish Free State, making him an especially prominent target; the houses of thirty-seven other senators were burned.

Alice Miller travels through Ireland, from Sligo to Dublin, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, Senator, Nobel ...

Yeats wrote about romantic Ireland being dead and gone and with O’Leary in the grave. What would the great poet say about ...

Yeats also stepped into the world of politics in 1922 when he was appointed a Senator for the newly established Irish Free State and served in the role for six years. In the late 1920s and early ...

Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his later years, he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish ...

And yes, it appeared in many Senate floor speeches. Sponsor Message But that is far from the only Yeats line that Biden has at the tip of his tongue. "Think where man's glory most begins and ends ...